<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><i class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">School for Designing a Society</span></i><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><font class="gmail-" color="#000000">invites you to </font></span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><font class="gmail-" color="#000000">a</font></span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> w</span><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">eekly community “drop-in” seminar on global/local immigration: </span></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><b class="gmail-" style="font-size:10pt"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">"How can investigating issues about immigration lead to activist interventions in Champaign-Urbana?"</span></b></div><p class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></p><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Sundays (beginning Feb. 4. Come when you can)</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">4-6pm</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">School for Designing a Society</span></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">122 Franklin St., Urbana, IL </span></div><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">(tea and coffee provided)</span></div><p class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-color:white;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"><span class="gmail-" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><div class="gmail-" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatu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